New York § 292 - 292Additional expenditure for improvement, repair and maintenance of town highways
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§ 292. 292Additional expenditure for improvement, repair and maintenance of town highways
§ 292. Additional expenditure for improvement, repair and maintenance of town highways. Upon the written application of twenty-five taxpayers of a town, filed with the town clerk, the electors thereof may, at a regular or special town meeting, vote by ballot upon a proposition for the expenditure of a sum, not exceeding one-third of one per centum of the total taxable property of the town, including incorporated villages, in addition to the sum authorized by this chapter for the improvement, repair and maintenance of town highways in such town. Such proposition shall be submitted in the manner provided by law for the submission of questions or propositions at a town meeting. If such proposition be adopted, the amount specified therein shall be a town charge and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other town moneys, and when collected shall be paid to the supervisor and expended for the purposes specified in such proposition as provided in this chapter.
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